Its been a long time. The end of the year for me is always slow, yet jammed packed.

I tend to wait until the last minute to do things, meanwhile the year before I promise myself I'll do better the next.

I did reflect on 2009 of course. About things like: my personal life and where I wanted it to go, professional life for sure (I'm young, sexy and living in New York city) I LOVE to do the most for no reason. I also day-dreamed about taking on more hobbies...like bike-riding. I bought a red bike...I'm so excited, yet nervous as hell to ride it.

I also plan on refining some other skills & challenging myself in other areas.

GetPOLISHED is making some changes and covering new ground as well, one area we will uncover lies within The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Their are a few exhibits there that I want to see. One is the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas exhibit.

I am particularly interested in seeing these pieces up close & personal. Pretty intriguing they are from my computer; and the colors in the sculptures have me thinking about exotic vacations & clothing.

Going through one of my FAVORITE magazines...(sorry, but this one is a secret) I began reading an interview and discovered one COOL chick: Aurel Schmidt.

Schmidt, born and raised in Canada can best be described as a mis-fit. Wearing over-sized glasses, hailing from a trailer-park and not too well received or encouraged by her pa-rentals, this 25 y/o ditched Canada and headed for Vancouver. There she dived into the art scene and the rest is history.

Here are some images from her book: Burn Out "This series focuses on the profane, icky, neglected and overlooked objects of daily life"

Now, to warn my GetPOLISHED readers, these prints are NOT recession specials. At a little over $300.00 they are "SPECIAL" but during these times not quite pocket friendly. However, their IS a silver lining!